Product Description
Baicalin is a kind of flavonoid compound extracted and separated from the root of scutellaria baicalensis. It is light yellow powder at room temperature with bitter taste. Insoluble in methanol, ethanol, acetone, slightly soluble in chloroform and nitrobenzene, almost insoluble in water, soluble in hot acetic acid. When ferric chloride appears green, when lead acetate produces orange precipitate. Soluble in alkali and ammonia, yellow at first, and soon turn black brown. It has significant biological activities, such as antibacterial, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, cholesterol-lowering, anti-thrombosis, relieving asthma, purgatory and detoxification, antichemicalbook blood, antifetal, antiallergic and antispasmolytic effects. It is also a specific inhibitor of mammalian liver sialoenzyme, which has the effect of regulating some diseases, and has a strong physiological effect of anticancer reaction. It is mainly used for the treatment of dampness and temperature, heat and chest depression and vomiting, dampness and heat swelling, diarrhea and jaundice, lung heat cough, hyperthermia and dipsia, blood heat vomiting, carbuncle, swelling and sore poison, restless fetus. In addition, baicalin can also absorb ultraviolet rays, remove oxygen free radicals and inhibit the generation of melanin, so it is a good raw material for functional beauty cosmetics.
